Hitting the Retirement Reset Button
"Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, 'Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.'” - Mark 6:31 NIV "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work." - Genesis 2:2 NIV “So, what are your plans once you retire?” When I announced my January retirement last fall to coworkers and clients alike, that question came up often. And I did have plans: to take the first full month to decompress, then begin working on projects and planning trips with my wife in the early spring. What I quickly discovered, however, was that my expectations for that first year—really, for those first months—were shaped by decades of constant availability and productivity. My plans weren’t just too ambitious; they were not physically, emotionally, or spiritually healthy, rooted in a work rhythm that never truly paused, even after hou...
